vice president garcia: and the circular staircase you were describing would be where on that rendering? >> right here. vice president garcia: i had thought the commissioner was asking you about the back. >> i know. there are 2 the luster cases, one here and won here. -- there are two staircases, one here and one here. this goes from the outside yard to the kitchen. vice president garcia: thank you. >> thank you. mr. murphy. no rebuttal? ok. mr. sanchez. >> i would like to put on the overhead and an aerial photo that might help show the subject property. this long building is the permit holder's property. the adjacent building is the appellant's property. commissioner fung: excuse me. victor, can you grow -- blow that up a little bit? thank you. that is good. thank you. >> this would be the -- my finger is huge. this would be the permit holder's property. this is the appellant's property. you can see there is quite a recess already between the buildings. the rear of building walls are a southern-facing exposures. i would not think this would have a great addition to shut up, especially

a staircase would have to be deliverable area with a valid staircase. >> thank you. >> adding a bathroom, adding a ron shipp is a sensible. we see a lot of people putting elevators as our population, including us, ages. >> or houses are getting more vertical. >> that is right. no permit is required for a tool shed that is less than 100 square feet of area looking down, bird's eye view. less than 100 square feet, no permit is required. without a permit, there is no trigger for an assessment. >> you could go up two stories? >> no, actually. the planning department has a height limit of i think 10 feet in the required the rear yard area. eight or 10 feet. [laughter] keep your hot tub in your toolshed. >> in this market, if you bought your house recently and you are thinking about doing one of these that you think is going to make your assessment go up, you can always apply and have your assessed value go down. >> we have some information here about that. we will get to that in a second. having a swimming pool or a sauna will change the assessed value of your property. i would get approval.

when she stands back nine feet away, she looks across and sees an ugly staircase that goes down a set of flats and that's where we are filling in. my wife, and i and son want the same benefit to put a decent kitchen and bedroom above us. we live in an 11-foot wide, 40-foot high house and for height reasons and seismic reasons, we want to expand out. again, i met with her beforehand to discuss it with her and said she was fine with her. i met with her during the 311 process and i opened up the plans in her living room on a table and we wept through it. and i pointed out to her how we pulled the project back three feet and she said she was fine with it. go forward two years, my wife and i are excited after 15 years, we can afford to fix it up and straighten it out. and i'm shocked to get this appeal. i don't think she meets any burden or meets any criteria on the prime primary grounds of appeal. my light extends beyond her house. any on the western side is not going to take light away. we aren't extending beyond the light of my building. so whatever light is blocked has already been blo

on some of the critical infrastructures, like overpasses, bridges, tunnels we have in the city, staircases that we do not pay attention to. all of that is included, along with ada compliance on our curb ramps. that is important to me in the city that we keep up that standard, making her that our streets are up to standard. this is much more for -- much more than just for people who drive cars. it will make for more timely bus schedules. will also allow pedestrians to have safer route. it will also allow, of course, a big benefit for our aggressively growing bicycle community in san francisco, which i have had the pleasure of joining in last week's bike to work day. so i want to ask that the board of supervisors today consider it. i am asking for as much support as possible, from henry member of the board of supervisors, as well as from the public. the public has talk to me about this before and we know we are going to do this right. by november, we will have put forth things that suggest we have taken care of our but mitchell house. -- our financial house. >> thank you, mr. mayor. we would

leaders are working on everything from a little graffiti problem or staircase gardens saying that they want to get beyond neglect and bring it back to what it really is -- is paying attention to our neighborhoods, making them stronger, building community and building partnerships. that is what these street parks are all about. it is never about just the concrete or the flowers. it is about the life and increased value we bring to our neighborhoods. that is what being a neighbor of the great city is all about. that is what i love about the city. my neighborhood is doing the same thing with our street. we want to pay attention to it. we want to get a little help. they get it. we bring the bureaucrats out to the neighborhoods. we make everybody that much more appreciative of what kind of city they are a part of. i want to emphasize the strength of our city relies on the strength of people likfrom the community. you build it here, in glen park, the mission, chinatown. it builds up the strength of the city. it comes back to our department's opening up their resources, not protecting it like

there is a problem with the main staircase and the project is behind schedule. organizers say that, although some are skeptical that it will ever be finished, there is nothing to worry about. >> for some, the glass is half full. for others, it is half empty. people in poland are looking forward to this tournament. we're doing everything we can to make it work. we will show the world the new, modern, friendly face of poland. >> but there is plenty to do in th preparations. the soccer wld is keeping a wary eye on the fans in poland. many people are afraid after recent incidents. no tickets were issued. we go to a first-division match and find out that many tickets were handed out to school children so that it would look like a normal game with full stands. >> things could go badly wrong in poland and up playing england at 02012-- end up playing england at euro 2012. >> i am concerned that things could go very wrong. >> we leave warsaw and it's on tennis stadium behind to drive southeast, down the same road that many fans will take a year from now to get to the sec

leaders are working on everything from a little graffiti problem or staircase gardens saying that theyt

personally have seen some of the effects that have gone on such as folks being able to walk on the staircases and stretching rooms, on the great programs that have been implemented, like zumba and really focused on heart health. i want to thank you and present this class to the sfmta. thank you. [applause] >> thank you so much for being here to present this lovely award. >> absolutely. >> thank you. the next item i need to brief you on is related to the board of supervisors who last year requested that management audits of each m.t.a. division be conducted. the first of these audits was related to our sustainable streets division, and i'd like to ask the director of the sustainable streets division to give you a quick briefing on the audit. vaughn? >> good afternoon. good afternoon, mr. chair, members of the board. as mr. ford has mentioned, a management audit of each of the sfmta divisions was requested by the board of supervisors in 2010. mr. ford and his office and also the city services auditor from the controllers selected sustainable streets as the first of the divisions to be audited.

my favorite of all is in the staircase.s almost a miracle masterpiece how he could manage to not only fit everyone, of course, a lot of them i recognized from my childhood -- it's how he juxtaposed and managed to kind of climb up that stairway on either side very much like you are walking down a street. it was incredible to do that and to me, that is what depicted the life of the times in san francisco. i even like the ones that show the industrial areas, the once with the workers showing them in the cannery and i can remember going in there and seeing these women with the caps, with the nets shuffling these cans through. my parents had a ranch in santa rosa and we went there all summer. i could see these people leaning over and checking. it looked exactly like the beautiful things about the ranch. i think he was pretty much in the never look back philosophy about the coit. i don't think he ever went to visit again after we moved from telegraph hill, which was only five or six years later. i don't think he ever had to see i

it features a two-store grand marble staircase, a gourmet kitchen, salon and 40-foot pool with cabanasook. >> welcome. i'm jade mills. >> and i'm joyce ray. we're the brokers for the exquisite home. >> this elegant palladian estate is on almost two acres in prime beverly hills on sunset boulevard. >> it took the homeowners nearly five years to complete this magnificent estate. the entire exterior is clad in imported hand carved european limestone. this magnificent entrance, with its exquisite detail, is inspired by versailles itself. and the pool and gardens are reminiscent of the hearst castle. >> and across the entry from the library is this very grand dining room that seats 30. with calcutta viola columns and beautiful chandeliers, i can see someone very special dining here. >> i love the breakfast room. it's truly the most romantic room in the house, with its very delicate floral and butterfly moldings, exceptional lattice work and exquisite chandelier. the house is also flanked by wonderful citrus orchards. you can have organic fruit every day as well as beautiful floral gardens,

coming into the rotunda, seeing the staircase, it is very mesmerizing, very memorable, and powerful. it was at that moment i decided i wanted to work here in this building. i had a short conversation with diane feinstein, the mayor then, and she spoke to the entire class. she spoke for a couple minutes. she planted the seed of public service, and to give of yourself selflessly, the giving of your time and talent. it was something my parents instilled in me early on. serving district 10 is an extension of who i am and a general desire to help improve the quality of life for people in san francisco. >> where do you place yourself on the political spectrum? are you left, right? >> i am more forward-thinking. for me, it is less about being left or right, or moderate or progressive. it is about the issues and creating policies that will have a sustainable and lasting positive impact on the families that live here. it is costly and difficult to do business in san francisco, to raise your children in san francisco. i would like a voice at the table to create policies that will minimize the

the railings on the plan around the surface of this roof deck -- there was a staircase to get up to this, but there was no -- so we had a problem because the building inspection that was done for the sale of the property by the buyer indicated that, well, this cannot be permitted roof deck. in digging around a little bit more, we found that to be true. this is a two-unit building that the buyer intended to apply for a condominium conversion that some point in the near future. that was a big deal for them. what they found out in their search was they would have to remove what was there or find a way to add a second means of egress. that was a $10,000 problem. >> i think any to chip in your. things have changed about second means of redress for homes. only one exit is required for each unit. this created that. >> we go back to their units, my friend rented out, but has never complained about it too many people. what kind of problem could my friend get in this kind of situation? >> [inaudible] >> there are endless problems you can get into renting an illegal unit. you are an attorney. you w

. >>> reporter: the people who were robbed were just coming offer the staircase from the bart station and heading under that overpass here on tennyson road. it is just dark and hidden enough for two men to try to steal some cash but in one case, they took it a step further and shot a man in front of his wife. >> the robbery in and of itself with a handgun is a cowardly act. and once you have gotten what you want, what you have asked for and these people have complied, undoubtedly adding fear for their life, you then shoot them? i can't rationalize that. >> reporter: this was the scene at 11 last night when it was turned into a crime scene. the first victims, two teenaged girls walking under the overpass confronted by two men. one with a handgun fired it into the air. the girls gave up what they had and walked away. seconds later a married couple who had just taken bart from the airport was confronted in the same spot. >> almost exact same circumstances, where one suspect brandished a gun and demanded money. >> reporter: but this time, the gunman pulled the trigger. >> after the robber

as a senior citizen, i like the staircase he proposes that will eventually connect the streets so that i don't have to walk in the road. i walked to the bus stop at night after work. i also think the light and he wants to put in will put the -- make the streets safer than it is now. i think it is a classic project and support it despite the fact that i will have a slightly lesser view from the deck. -- from the deck." no other opponents of the other shown up to any of the meetings. one public meeting we did have, none of the people came. thank you. president olague: thank you. are there additional speakers in support of the project sponsor? >> good afternoon, commissioners. i have a small architectural practice i operate out of my home, which is located down the street from the proposed project. i've lived there with my family for the past will years. i would like to voice my strong support for the project as proposed for the following reasons. first of all, the project as a dwelling unit to the city's stock, which is a good thing. secondly, the project provides additional off-street p

our variance request does not involve any structural changes, other than moving and outside staircase about 2 feet to the left. so it will have absolutely no impact on the neighborhood, the open space or rear yard. nothing will change if the variances granted. when we applied for the lot split variants, we were told we needed to request a variance for open space and at the rear yard, but 13 years ago the planning and building department reviewed and approved a permit request to build the new warehouse with no comments regarding rear yard or open space, possibly because this lot had historically been designated as a legal but nonconforming lot. in any case, the decision about open space in the rear yard of this property was made at that time. at a different decision then could have affected the amount of open space in the rear yard, but nothing in today's proceeding will affect either of those issues in any way. having said that, we could do a better job of meeting the open space requirement then they give us credit for. he did not factor in the large 180 square foot back off the kitch

it sat at the top of the stairs-- at the top of a spiral staircase in a hallway on a table. was it a grand house, would you describe it? it was a fairly grand house... in its own grounds. now that would make sense from a date point of view, 'cause this glass vase dates to around about 1900, maybe about 1905. so bearing in mind the age of the field marshal, - this is all making sense. - yeah. the great thing about a vase like this is that it looks different in different light. so with natural light bouncing off it, it comes alive. it's quite magical. it starts its life, as i said, at the turn of the century. it's actually austrian, because this particular piece is almost certainly made by the lurz factory. and lurz were there making iridescent glass throughout the end of the 19th century into the 20th century. people always used to say it's poor man's tiffany, which is very unkind, because lurz were making iridescent glass before louis comfort tiffany really took it to its high point in america in the 1900s. anyway let's have a look at the piece itself, because what makes it